Thursday, June 09, 2016

Twitter credentials are being
traded in the tens of millions on the dark web. LeakedSource has obtained and added a copy of
this data to its ever-growing searchable repository of leaked data. This data set was provided to us by a user who
goes by the alias “[email protected]”,
and has given us permission to name them in this blog.

This data set contains 32,888,300
records. Each record may contain an
email address, a username, sometimes a second email and a visible password. We have
very strong evidence that Twitter was not hacked, rather the consumer was.These credentials however are real and
valid. Out of 15 users we asked, all 15
verified their passwords.

The explanation for this is that tens of millions of people have become
infected by malware, and the malware sent every saved username and
password from browsers like Chrome and Firefox back to the hackers from all
websites including Twitter.

You can search for your info on LeakedSource’s home page, here. Read more on LeakedSource’s blog post about
Twitter, here.

Matt Robinson reports
that Morgan Stanley has been fined $1 million by the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to settle allegations that it failed to
protect customer data improperly taken by a former financial adviser, Galen
Marsh.

But the SEC went after Morgan Stanley for its failure to
protect all that customer data. Today,
they issued the following statement:

The SEC issued an order finding
that Morgan Stanley failed to
adopt written policies and procedures reasonably designed to protect customer
data. As a result of these
failures, from 2011 to 2014, a then-employee impermissibly accessed and
transferred the data regarding approximately 730,000 accounts to his personal
server, which was ultimately hacked by third parties.

…Thankfully,
there are a few things that you can do to prevent an attack, and a few things
you can do to fix your Facebook account if it does get hacked.

…Go to
Settings > Security > Where You’re Logged In and click edit. The information contained in the section will
show where you’ve logged in and with what devices you signed in with. For example, my last log in was in Cologne,
Germany on my iPhone, which sounds about
right.

In today’s digital age, social
media competence is a critical communication tool for academics. Whether you’re looking to engage students,
increase awareness of your research, or garner media coverage for your
department, engaging in social media will give you a competitive edge.

THE NEXT BIG THING?I like pretending that I’m social.Telling my students about new stuff makes it seem like I care!

Via BBC – Tom Chatfield 5 June
2016 – “You may be familiar with the statistic that 90% of the world’s
data was created in the last few years. It’s true. One of the first mentions of this particular
formulation I can find dates back to May 2013, but the trend remains remarkably
constant. Indeed, every two years for about the last three decades the amount of data in
the world has increased by about 10 times – a rate that puts even
Moore’s law of doubling processor power to shame…Here’s the problem with much of the big data
currently being gathered and analysed. The
moment you start looking backwards to seek the longer view, you have far too
much of the recent stuff and far too little of the old. Short-sightedness is built into the structure,
in the form of an overwhelming tendency to over-estimate short-term trends at
the expense of history…”

I’m sure there is a lot of detail here.How I should use it is still a work in
progress.

“This report summarizes 2014 e-commerce statistics on
shipments, sales and revenues from four sectors of the economy: manufacturing,
wholesale, services and retail. The report and tables can be found on the U.S. Census
Bureau’s website at www.census.gov/econ/estats/.”

Never!Keep coding,
dudes. Yes, the frequency of 100 million
download Apps is down, but it will still happen as “the next big thing” offers
their App.And my students only need a
few million downloads at $.99 each to make their hobby pay.

Everyone needs to tell their college friends building an app
to stop right now

The era of mobile apps is over, and Facebook - with a
touch of Snapchat - won.

The following chart, which comes to us from Anthony
DiClemente at Nomura, shows how Facebook absolutely dominates the mobile app
space, owning four of the top five most-downloaded apps in May, with only
Snapchat breaking up its stranglehold on the space.

…Last month, my
colleague Kif
Leswing reported that the top 1% of publishers in Apple's App Store collect
94% of the revenue. In other words, the
App Store has effectively become a winner-take-all environment.

Matt Rosoff also
noted last month that the average number of apps on mobile phones has been
stuck at 27 for four years straight.

People already have the apps they want, or they at least
are tapped out at using a certain total number of apps, and so with
the pie for mobile apps not getting any bigger, the giants of the space are
accruing the gains.

And a market that has stopped scaling is not a market you
want to try to break into.

…Apple marketing
chief Phil Schiller
explained that developers will now have the option to sell subscriptions to
customers for any of their apps. This
could drastically change the landscape of the App Store ecosystem and the
expectations of iOS users that
are used to paying a few bucks for an app, or at most $9.99 if they’re really
committed.

In
return, developers will get a larger share of revenue — if they manage
to keep customers long-term. Under the
current revenue-sharing model, developers get a 70 percent cut, while Apple
gets the remaining 30 percent. Under the
new rules, that split will still stay in place if developers decide not to
deploy app subscriptions.But if developers
do offer subscriptions, and customers stick around for at least a year, Apple’s
cut drops down to just 15 percent.

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I live in Centennial Colorado. (I'm not actually 100 years old., but I hope to be some day.) I'm an independant computer consultant, specializing in solving problems that traditional IT personnel tend to have difficulty with... That includes everything from inventorying hardware & software, to converting systems & data, to training end-users. I particularly enjoy taking on projects that IT has attempted several times before with no success. I also teach at two local Universities: everything from Introduction to Microcomputers through Business Continuity and Security Management. My background includes IT Audit, Computer Security, and a variety of unique IT projects.